Liberia Health Workers Go On Strike To Demand "Danger Money" To Care For Those With Ebola

Health workers across Liberia went on strike on Monday to demand danger money to care for the sick at the heart of a raging Ebola epidemic that has already killed dozens of their colleagues. Doctors, nurses and carers in west Africa are on the front line of the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola, which has killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and the hardest-hit, Liberia. Liberia Deputy Minister of Public Health Tolbert Nyenswa told local media that many patients with the deadly Ebola have already died at the Island Clinic in Monrovia due to the strike action. The chairman of the Liberian health workers' union, Joseph Tamba, said his strike call had been "massively" followed.